Linda Ibrahim will go to trial on manslaughter and vehicular manslaughter charges.

UPDATE (12:07 p.m.): Linda Ibrahim's lawyer, Benjamin Ostrer, asked the judge to dismiss the top manslaughter count, as he alleged the accident reconstruction showed his client was not speeding at the time of the crash. The lack of speeding, he argued, would take away the recklessness required to charge Ibrahim for manslaughter.

But prosecutor Chris Borek said there was plenty of evidence to show recklessness. He argued that Ibrahim knew the road and knew the victim could have been thrown into the creek and would need immediate help to avoid death.

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Linda Ibrahim, the woman charged in the hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of Eric Geter, has turned down a plea offer of criminally negligent homicide, which included a recommended prison sentence of one and a third to four years in prison.

She will go to trial on manslaughter and vehicular manslaughter charges.

Geter, 32, was struck by a car early on Jan. 9 as he walked to his job on Walsh Road in New Windsor, on a narrow, winding stretch of road that runs along the Quassaick Creek. His body was found in the creek. An autopsy determined that he died from blunt-force trauma.

Linda Ibrahim, 29, of Cornwall was charged five days later with causing Geter's death. At that point, she had taken her 1988 Chrysler LeBaron to a body shop for repairs to a damaged front end and windshield.